The Expression of Gender Issues in the Novels of Alice Walker

Abstract

This article is about basic features and gender issues that expressed in the novels of Alice Walker and it also related to her suggestion of feminism as a stand-in point for black feminism to articulate its difference from white feminism was articulated in her 1983 collection of essays, “In Search of Our Mother's Gardens”. This philosophy emerged as a reaction to the marginalization of women of color in mainstream feminist critical theory and politics, which focused exclusively on gender oppression. Walker focuses on black feminism as a feminist, this term based on black folk culture to make it clear that the notion of femininity comes from the experience of being a black woman.